[governance] Cities and Internet Governance

[JFC Morfin]

2009/2/24 McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>:
> As has been pointed out to me off list, the IG issue here is offensive
> and defensive registrations.  These namespaces are just more places
> where folk who want to protect their brands will have to spend time
> and money to register the domain they already have.  The people on
> this list advocating for these spaces have high ideals, but, in the
> end, domaining is a billion $/Euro industry.

Who said so? ICANN ?

The only thing to do is to forget about the ICANN business model,
based upon others' names ransoning. Managing a TLD is managing a zone.
There millions of people managing a zone nowadays, and this is not a
big industry.

Controlling TLDs is a very efficient way to control cultural
dissemination and empowerment, and locally limit e-commerce
competition. The Clinton's "shaping the world, shaping the mind"
policy reflects a well established and known US cultural reflex. The
problem is that the sleeping European atonism only answers the NA
dynamism. China has created its own coexisting DNS. Others might
follow.

For decades the Internet technology is blocked by the monolateralism
of an IETF vision which is limited to a decentralised governance
architecture under the legal US definition of the Internet. The TCP/IP
technology was not designed with this in mind, and is much, much more
powerful. It takes a lot of legal/political efforts to make believe
that the world digital ecosystem virtual root is to be limited by the
unique formal root file server system.

The real issue with the ICANN's "Internet for the Rich" proposition is
that the next technological step is the Intersem (Internet Semantic
and Multilingual Network System) and that by essence the semantic
strata can only be distributed, by the people for the people along the
WSIS vision of a people's centered societal systemic. The difficulty
is to introduce it in a way that does not confuse the Internet strata.
It took more than 15 years to stabilise the introduction of the
Internet strata over the "Intertel" strata - and called for the
deregulation in the middle. Today, it will probably call for a
deicannization we might observe this year (JPA, IGF review, etc.).

jfc
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